Well today was the day that I popped through to Manchester to visit the Farjo Clinic and have a consultation with Mick.
It was a really nice experience, Mick is very straight talking and tells you how things are and gets to business, talked about what hair I had, my expectations, donor hair, costs, process, using mirrors to talk about my situation and explain in a way I could see and understand. It was nice to hear him comment that my actual hair look is nothing like as bad as the photos attached to the opening post of this thread make it look. I think I purposefully made it look as full on as I could in those photos to get an honest set of replies back.
Not once in the consultation did I feel that Farjo were trying to sell me something. It's evident by by how busy they are that they don't exactly need the money, it really did feel like the main concern was could they provide me with something that I really wanted, i.e. did my expectations meet with the reality of what can actually be done. We talked about medication and Mick even commented that it's 'possible' that with Propecia, I could see the hair thicken and maybe not even need surgery.
He's also advised that I should speak to one or two people in my area who have had surgery and he can fix that up for me. Chatting to them and seeing it first hand would be really useful I think.
He then told me to go off and think about it for a few days and then get back to him and talk about what comes next.
As a parting gift, he gave me a copy of a book by someone (Brian) who had a transplant done there, a guy who uses or has used this forum, he felt the content would be very relevant and useful to my situation.
I picked the book up earlier this evening and read the full thing cover to cover, I couldn't put it down! Fantastic book and it as much as it was just a great read, it really was a big help too.
Looking forward to the next stage, really can't see at this point why I wouldn't go forward with this.